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« on: December 24, 2011, 11:02:32 am »
Papa's Painter 1.0http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=765[Description]: This is version 1.0 of Papa's Painter for the Casio Prizm. It's version 1.0, because there can definitely be some improvements made. This is the first release version, because it's basically, fully functional. There's still plenty of room for improvement though. [Controls]: 1-9: Press the buttons 1 to 9 to change the shape of your paintbrush. 1 is the eraser, use it to clear up spaces. DEL: Only useable while in eraser mode. Clears the whole screen. F1-F6: Use the buttons F1-F6 to change colors. Not useable in eraser mode, cause, no point to it. EXE: You'll only use this button to get pass the home screen. Press it to continue, from the home screen. Arrow Keys: Use this to move around the paintbrush. That's pretty much it. Have fun using the program, and you can also look at the code to learn from it. It's pretty basic stuff though, the only things that are worth noting to look at, is everything up leading up to While T=3. Everything before "While T=3" is original. The point "While T=3" and after, it's all just copies of the whole "While T=2" section, so if you look at that section, you'll understand it all. Also, another thing worth noting; it's laggy on the calculator if your code goes above like 3000 bytes. This program is 5000 bytes, so it's really laggy to browse the code on the calculator.
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« on: October 04, 2011, 09:55:36 pm »
Another suggestion: JUME
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« on: September 29, 2011, 11:42:24 pm »
My prizm is screwed up from time to time, I use a LBL 1 and GOTO 1, and it says "SYNTAX ERROR!!!!!!" This is frustrating, sometimes I program for a few hours, turns out my code doesn't even work. There's no syntax error or anything through the documentation, I'm not the only person with this problem however, other people have ran into it, BS error, I hate it. Ruins everything.
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« on: September 23, 2011, 10:08:06 pm »
Okay, so I wanted to put some more pictures on the Casio Prizm calculator just for fun, this calculator is awesome. So I dragged in some JPEG files and some other file extensions and ran it through the Prizm. It turns out it can't even open these files, it says "Filetype Unavailable" when I browsed for the files. No big surprise there, the calculator wasn't made for looking at pictures. So I looked through the documentation, and learned that the .G3P files are the Prizm's picture files, and the .G3B are the Prizm's animation files. So it IS possible to look at images through the calculator, and maybe even some animations. But maybe the Prizm community died or something? I haven't seen any new files on Cemetech's prizm archive for maybe a year or so, and that's surprising, since there's only 7 total programs there (heck, this forum only has two programs total)!!! both games and tools combined! So I am also surprised that this issue of the G3P picture file hasn't come up yet! I think this calculator has so much potential, but it needs a stronger community. It has potential of playing animations, maybe even videos. So yeah, doing some searches on G3P and G3B, no website has any information on it. Casio provides very little information, and so far the only place I know that even has any G3P and G3B files is: http://edu.casio.com/products/cg_series/materials.html.
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« on: May 07, 2011, 09:27:22 pm »
but then you have to carry backwrds
186 +145 -------
How would you solve that easier than the regular method
Dang, I did this in like 2 seconds, too fun. 186 +145 ------- First you do the left column first: 100+100 = 200 Next column: 40+80 = 120 Add that to the last number we got (200+120) = 320 Last column 6+5 = 11 Add that to the last number we got (320+11) = 331
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« on: May 07, 2011, 08:48:56 pm »
55 +55 ------
Normally you would carry the 5+5 on the right side first, which would be a 1, then add it to the 2 50's on the left, to make 110.
Doing it the left-to-right way, you just do 50+50 first, = 100, then 5+5 = 10, answer is 110
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« on: May 07, 2011, 08:43:59 pm »
Here's a cool math hack:
Usually people are taught to do math arithmetic from right to left, but it's actually more efficient (easier and faster) to do it from left to right. Scott Flansburg aka "The Human Calculator" teaches children to do math from left to right and they end up able to do the majority of arithmetic problems in their head without even writing anything down. Try it.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 08:51:46 pm »
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« on: April 26, 2011, 04:07:28 pm »
It's impossible to change your guy's minds. I guess what you're taught at a young age sticks with you, kinda like a religion. Religion was forced on me, much like everything else I know or knew, and I started thinking about the things I knew, most of it I logically thought out to be lies. Like talent, and prodigies. Maybe you have to be called a prodigy yourself to know what it truly feels like, and to defy it. And I don't mean to offend anyone, I'm just saying religion is related, very related.
Anyway, I think Savants are exceptional. They are, by far, what anyone would call "gifted." Most of the kids you are talking about that are age 4 and play the piano really well, have played it for years (Tiger Woods learned about / how to play golf before he learned to walk), even though they're still young. But their level of playing, would be the same as a 25 year old that spent the same amount of time learning piano, maybe even worse. But no one is impressed at the 25 year old. However, because the kids are so young. people have an illusion that they must be gifted.
There's no difference between intelligence and how smart someone is. If someone is smart or intelligent, they will spend time working on what's important to them. If not, they'll sit around doing nothing, maybe drugs. Yeah, they're so "intelligent," they fail every class, yet still think they're superior to everyone. I met someone on omegle who said he was the smartest guy in his school. But he had terrible grades. Yet he still says "I'm actually one of the smartest people in my class." If he was so smart, why does he have a D in any class? I can't understand how some people think these days. But yeah, I guess it's the detrimental thought of people being "born" gifted, etc.
Also I've heard others say they're "intelligent" or "smart" but they're lazy, so they don't do well in their classes. If they were so "smart" and "intelligent," they wouldn't be lazy, what excuse do they have not to do their homework? Even on the busiest days, I finish my homework, because it doesn't take very long.
Anyway, back to savants. I have a theory on how they're so intelligent and "talented." For normal people like us, it would take experience to learn something, to master them. For savants however, something ticked in their brains due to their developmental problems and activated functions of the brain that would normally be acquired / created / connected to other neurons only by experience. Why is why it's like they "leveled up" in a skill very quickly.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 12:38:16 am »
Agh, I disagree with you Qwerty, there are no such people as "geniuses." You say Einstein was "always" good at that kind of thinking that won him the Nobel prize. There were thousands if not tens of thousands physicists living during the time. One of the things that made Einstein distinguishable from the rest was that he wasn't exposed to Newton's explanation of time, which was "Time is constant no matter what" meaning, you could go at any speed, but one second is still one second. It makes sense right? That's why the other physicists believed it. Not being hindered by this, he came up with the Theory of Relativity. If he was actually taught that material, do you still think he would have written a book on relativity?
I do believe you can get the average Joe off their feet and do anything they can. After all, aren't we all average Joes? Who's to say we are exceptional compared to others? Every single person in the whole planet thinks they are above average. Even if they're not. A homeless person would still think he is better than you, the average Joe to him. Everyone is an Average Joe to you since you're the main character in your life. You may think that the people you know aren't average Joes, but they are to people that don't know them. Heck, Einstein is an average Joe. He was a random person working at the patent office, that did badly in school. Look at what happened to him after he wrote his book on relativity.
If you still believe that Geniuses are born, so be it. You may realize the truth one day when you so choose to.
I had a teacher last year that gave a personality test to everyone in English class. It was for our future careers. We got assigned a personality and a corresponding list of jobs / careers. We had to choose one that interested us the most, since they said it was the best jobs we could get. We couldn't pick a job not on the list, it's like they're saying that we couldn't become anything else. That hurt us.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 12:08:55 am »
Welcome!
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« on: April 25, 2011, 11:53:18 pm »
Yeah, but talking to a mate, he says that "You can't change your IQ, you're born with it." So if that's what they believe, and I'm guessing a lot of others believe it too, it's doing more damage than good.
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« on: April 25, 2011, 11:43:20 pm »
*Phew* I looked at the chat box and I thought I was banned from chat or something
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« on: April 25, 2011, 11:32:52 pm »
Here you are saying you'll do this, you'll do that, you're gonna do this, you wanna be the best, you wanna cure cancer, you wanna go to the moon, you wanna touch the bottom of the ocean, whatever your dream is, how come it doesn't come true? Ever?
It's honestly because you don't actually mean what you say. Let's say you want to become the best in your school and get straight A's and whatnot, the reason you don't become the best in the school and the reason why you don't get straight A's is because you don't actually want to. You say you want to, but you don't mean it.
If you wanted to be the best so badly, you would have done something about it. You would study all day, all night, you would barely have time to hang out with friends, but you would be the best in your school. Let's face it, these "gifted" students, these "prodigies" etc, don't exist. There's no student in the world that got straight A's (in high school at least), without practice. Anything related to the subject counts as practice, whether it be homework or studying. People are better than you at certain things because they spent more time doing it, and have more experience than you.
I remember my first computer class I ever took. People called me a computer prodigy, and people still do because they just don't know any better, but I've actually had years of experience using the computer before I took that class. So I knew every single thing the teacher was teaching and the new material she taught us seeped into my head a lot more easily than my mates because I've had so much more experience than them and could relate it to other things I've learned and done. The same goes with my friend, he's the best person in math I ever met. Literally, people call him a math genius everyday, he's gotten 100s on every math test, he does problems in less than a second, new material to him is cake. But I know him well, his secret? He spends a lot of time studying his courses.
Same goes with Terence Tao, he's considered the smartest man in mathematics alive today. He 99th percentiled on the Math SAT, when he was 8. He got a PhD at age of 20. He says however that he is no one special, he just spent a lot of time on math as a kid. That's all he did, math, math, math. When he was 2, his parents forced math down his throat, every hour of every day, his mother being a mathematician herself. Look at where that got him, he's the BEST in the WORLD!!!
Same goes for every "talented" person in the world today. The William sisters have spent their whole childhood forced by their father to play tennis with baseball bats, aiming at targets the father put out. In an experiment to prove that talent doesn't exist, a father trained all his daughters in playing chess. Susan, Judit and Sofia Polgar all became chess Grand Masters and the top women chess players in the world, I think even becoming the best chess players overall. All this, during a time ignorant men thought women could never play chess well, because they're minds are not adjusted enough for it.
The IQ test is also something that doesn't make sense, and I don't understand why it is still around today. The creator of the IQ test says
"The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured." — Alfred Binet, The creator of the IQ tests, 1905
I've heard people say, I've seen comments posted, etc, that a person would not be able to complete a task because their IQ was not high enough. I hate, completely detest it when people say that. I honestly hate nothing more in the world than how the word "Talent" "prodigy" "IQ test" and relating words are used. The main reason people say that someone is talented is when someone is YOUNG and does an incredible feat, normally done by adults. But it's not that impressive if you take a 25 year old that does the same thing. Even if they have the same experience in the activity. Adults will actually have the advantage and learn faster, since they have lived longer and experienced more.
There are only a few things that interest a person, and if academics is not one of them, even if the person says he wants to become the best in the school, he will never become the best. Unless that person takes up an interest in academics. And if he has disliked it since he was a child, he will most likely continue his habit of hating academics.
However, you find that you are more exceptional than others at the things you LOVE doing. If you LOVE doing something so much, you will do it, all the time. And you will do it, without even thinking about it. You will love doing it. You will enjoy doing it so much you would PAY MONEY to do it. Like talking to friends, I think many people love that activity a lot. So they'll do it all the time without knowing they're "practicing" and "gaining experience." The people that socialize the most leave the others behind, which is why there are some very shy people, they don't have experience in talking to people.
Geniuses are not born, they're made. Never forget that. No matter how old you get, you can always become the best at the thing you love to do. If you love an activity so much, you'll do it, if you don't, you won't. That's all there is.
After reading what I just wrote, I am able to narrow down the things that I love to do, and I can notice that if I say I want to be the best in academics, that I don't really mean it. Just remember my lesson, it's one of the most important things you will learn in your life. There's no such thing as talent. There's no such thing as a prodigy. If you still believe that there is such thing, and that the IQ test is awesome and true, then go ahead living life that way. But you'll never improve in anything. There was a research done, people that believed that "skill" existed, but not talent, did better at new activities than the people that believed "talent" existed, because the people with the talent mindset thought they had no talent for it, and sucked. However, even today, I think the majority, or maybe just the COUNTRY (EVERY SINGLE PERSON I HAVE MET!!!!!!), believe that talent exists. So I hope this has helped you out in some way, I just had to post this somewhere, so I posted it here. I made this up on the spot when the idea came to my head to write about the thing that I hated the most in the whole world, and connected it with the thing I love the most in the world, skill.
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« on: April 25, 2011, 10:37:26 pm »
Wow Levak, that is AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Here's one of my favorite videos on YouTube It starts off with a guy giving everyone a high five, making bets, etc, saying he can go down 12 steps on his bike. Watch what happens to him. (This'll make you question why someone would put this up... lol)
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